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Sunday, January 5, 2014

ABOUT THE BOOK:Edgar® Award-winning author Aaron
Elkins’s creation—forensics professor Gideon
Oliver—has been hailed by the Chicago Tribune as
“a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth.” Now
the celebrated Skeleton Detective is visiting friends at a
vineyard in Tuscany when murder leaves a bitter
aftertaste...

When Gideon Oliver and his wife, Julie, are in Tuscany
visiting the Cubbiddu family, the renowned Skeleton
Detective is asked to reexamine the remains of a mysterious
family tragedy. Pietro Cubbiddu, former patriarch of the
Villa Antica wine empire, is thought to have killed his wife
and then himself in the remote mountains of the Apennines.
It does not take long for Gideon to deduce that, whatever
happened, a murder-suicide it was not.

Soon Gideon finds himself in a morass of family antipathies,
conflicts, and mistrust, to say nothing of the local
authority’s resentment. And when yet another Cubbiddu
relation meets an unlikely end, it becomes bone-chillingly
clear that the killer is far from finished...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Aaron Elkins is the creator of the modern forensic mystery, having pioneered the genre with Fellowship of Fear,
which introduced the Skeleton Detective, Gideon Oliver. Among his
awards are a best-novel Edgar and a Nero Wolfe Award. He and his wife
Charlotte hold a jointly awarded Agatha. Aaron’s books have been
translated into a major ABC-TV series and have been selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Condensed Mystery Series.

In addition, his work has been published in over a dozen languages. In addition to his forensic novels, Aaron has a second series
featuring art curator-sleuth Chris Norgren and several stand-alone
thrillers. He and Charlotte have collaborated on two mystery series: one
featuring female golfer Lee Ofsted, and the other, Alix London, the
“Art Whisperer,” which is still going strong.Aaron and Charlotte live on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. He
keeps his hand in the forensic game by serving as the forensic
anthropologist for the Peninsula Cold Case Task Force.

SOME OTHER BOOKS BY AARON ELKINS:

GIVEAWAYTHANKS TO KAYLEIGH AND THE GOOD FOLKS

AT BERKLEY PRIME CRIME AND PENGUIN BOOKS,I HAVE ONE COPY OF DYING ON THE VINE,TO GIVE AWAY TO A LUCKY READER--U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
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GIVEAWAY ENDS AT

6 PM, EST, JANUARY 13

GOOD LUCK!

A "WISE OWL" SPECIAL GIVEAWAY(In this case, meaning one that was scheduled before my break from blogging)

On the author's website, I discovered that he also writes mysteries with his wife---including a 5 book series about a young female pro-golfer. As a golfer, I'm interested and going to try to find out more about this series.suefarrell.farrrell@gmail.com

Thanks to all!

Sadly, we will be saying good bye to Bookin' With Bingo early next month. Things just have been too hectic so we have chosen to close down with hopes for a new "BWB" someday. Thanks to all and KEEP READING!